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Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (占总分的35%)
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Directions: There are three passages in this part.Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements.For each of them there are four choices marked A),B),C)and D).You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Questions 35 to 39 are based on the following passage:
In the primary school, a child is in a comparatively simple setting and most of the time forms a relationship with one familiar teacher. On entering secondary school, a new world opens up and frequently it is a much more difficult world. The pupil soon learns to be less free in the way he speaks to teachers and even to his fellow pupils. He begins to lose gradually the free and easy ways of the primary school, for he senses the need for a more cautious approach in the secondary school where there are older pupils. Secondary staff and pupils suffer from the pressures of academic work and seem to have less time to stop and talk. Teachers with specialist roles may see hundreds of children in a week, and a pupil may be able to form relationships with very few of the staff. He has to decide which adults are approachable; good schools will make clear to every young person from the first year what guidance and personal help is available—but whether the reality of life in the institution actually encourages requests for help is another matter.
Adults often forget what a confusing picture school can offer to a child. He sees a great deal of movement, a great number of people—often rather frighteninglooking people—and realises that an increasing number of choices and decisions have to be made. As he progresses through the school the confusion may become less but the choices and decisions required will increase. The school will rightly expect the pupil to take the first steps to obtain the help he needs, for this is the pattern of adult life for which he has to be prepared, but all the time the opportunities for personal and group advice must be presented in a way which makes them easy to understand and within easy reach of pupils.
35.According to the passage one of the problems for pupils entering secondary schools is that ________.
A.they are taught by many different teachers
B.they do not attend lessons in every subject
C.the teachers do not want to be friendly
D.the teachers give most attention to the more academic pupils
36.In secondary schools every pupil having problems should ________.
A.know how to ask for help
B.be free from any pressure of academic work
C.be able to discuss his problems in class
D.be able to discuss his problems with any teacher
37.In this passage about secondary schools, the author is mainly concerned about ________.
A.academic standards
B.the role of specialist teachers
C.the training of the individual teachers
D.the personal development of pupils
38.Which of the following statements is true?
A.Pupils will form relationships with old pupils rather than teachers.
B.The setting of the primary school is comparatively simpler than that of the secondary school.
C.All the teachers in the secondary school are rather frighteninglooking.
D.Pupils have opportunities to get help from any teacher in the secondary school.
39.What is the main idea of this passage?
A.The difference between the primary school and the secondary school.
B.The method that pupils get help from the teachers.
C.The personal development of the pupils in the secondary school.
D.The function of the secondary school.
Questions 40 to 44 are based on the following passage:
Every Sunday morning millions of Indians settle down with a cup of tea and the special weekend issues of their newspapers, just as Americans do. But here, with the marriage season approaching, many of them turn quickly to a Sunday feature that is particularly Indian—the columns and columns of marriage advertisements in which young people look for husbands and wives.
“Beautiful Brahman girl wanted for bank officer from wellconnected family,” one says. “Vegetarian man (doctor, engineer preferred) for churcheducated girl with light complexion,” says another. “Solid 25yearold, salary four figures, wants tall, charming, educated Punjabi,” says a third.
This is a relatively modern change in the ageold custom of the arranged marriage. The thousands of advertisements published each week increasingly reflect social changes that are coming to this traditional society. For example, although women are still usually described in terms of appearance, or skills in “the wifely arts,” information about their earning power is entering more and more of the advertisements. This reflects the arrival in India of the working wife.
Divorce, which used to be almost unheard of in India, is sometimes now mentioned in the advertisements as in the case of a woman whose advertisement in a New Delhi newspaper explained that she had been “the innocent party” when her marriage broke up.
Because the custom of the dowry (marriage payment) is now illegal, some advertisements say “no dowry,” or “simple marriage,” which means the same thing. However, the fathers of many bridegrooms still require it.
As a sign of the slight loosening of the rigid caste (social class) system, a number of advertisements promise “caste not important,” or “girl’s abilities will be main consideration.” The majority of them, however, still require not only caste, such as Brahman or Kshatriya, but also a certain home region or ethnic origin.
In a land where light skin is often regarded as socially preferable, many also require that a woman have a “wheatcolor” complexion or that a man be “tall, fair and handsome.”
Advertisements are placed and eagerly read by a wide range of people in the upper classes, mostly in cities. Many of them receive dozens of answers. “There’s nothing embarrassing about it,” explained a Calcutta businessman advertising for a soninlaw. “It’s just another way of broadening the contacts and increasing the possibility of doing the best one can for one’s daughter.”
Because of high unemployment and a generally poor standard of living here, one of the best attractions a marriage advertisement can offer is a permit to live abroad, especially in Canada or the United States. A person who has one can get what he wants.
One recent Sunday in Madras, for example, a Punjabi engineer living in San Francisco advertised for a “beautiful slim bride with lovely features knowing music and dance.” And a man whose advertisement said that he had an American immigration permit was able to say, “Only girls from rich, welleducated families need apply.”
40. The main idea of Paragraph 3 is that _______.
A. India’s society is changing
B. women work
C. arranged marriages are an age old custom
D. working wife arrives
41. Although he does not directly say it, the Calcutta businessman would probably agree that _______.
A. it is a good idea to place marriage advertisements in the newspaper
B. it is a bad idea to place marriage advertisements in the newspaper
C. it is embarrassing if anyone answers such advertisements
D. it is embarrassing if no one answers such advertisements
42. In “A person who has one can get what he wants,” one refers to _______.
A. feature
B. marriage advertisement
C. permit to live abroad
D. Canada or the United States
43. Paragraph 10 gives examples of _______.
A. advertisements from two women looking for husbands
B. typical marriage advertisements from the Madras newspapers
C. the qualities that a person with an immigration permit can ask for and expect to get
D. the change of traditional marriage custom
44.A good title for this article would be _______.
A. Why Do People Marry?
B. Marriage Customs in India Are Changing
C. Why Indians Read the Sunday Newspaper?
D. Living Abroad
Questions 45 to 49 are based on the following passage:
An eminent neurologist(神经学者), Eric Lenneberg, argued (Lenneberg, 1967) that the human capacity for language acquisition develops according to builtin biological schedules. Native language learning, he claimed, begins with the start of a state of “resonance” in the child which lasts from about two until the onset of puberty(青春期), at about age thirteen. The evidence for this socalled critical period for language acquisition offered by Lenneberg was clinical.
Children aged two or three who suffer brain damage may lose all or part of the language they have learned, but are able to begin the learning process again, often progressing at a faster rate than before. When children suffer aphasia(失语症)between four and ten and begin learning language again, recovery is usually complete, even if requiring several years. Aphasias suffered after puberty, on the other hand, are rarely recovered from completely, and among those occurring after age eighteen, recovery is the exception rather than the rule, partial or total language loss usually being permanent.
When Krashen (1973) reexamined the data on speech loss and recovery after unilateral brain damage, plus that available from psychological and dicrotic listening tests, he found that the process of language lateralization, the shifting of most linguistic knowledge to the left hemisphere (in most righthanded people), is completed far earlier than puberty, probably by age five in most cases. Further, the ability to transfer language function from the languagedominant hemisphere to the minor one when the former suffers damage also seems to disappear after five, although the idea that it may continue until puberty in some cases is a possibility, too, on the basis on the evidence available.
45.If the child suffers aphasia, he can recover completely ________.
A.before the onset of puberty B.after age eighteen
C.before age two D.after puberty
46.Which of the following statements is true?
A.Anyone who suffers aphasia may have the ability to recover completely.
B.Usually, children who suffer aphasia can recover immediately.
C.It may take several years for children who suffer aphasia before the onset of puberty to recover completely.
D.The recovery for the children who suffer aphasia is the exception rather than the rule.
47.The ability of transferring language function will disappear ________.
A.after puberty B.after five
C.between four and ten D.before the onset of puberty
48.Children aged two or three can ________ after recovering from aphasia.
A.make a faster progress in learning than before
B.recovery part of the learning ability
C.do nothing but wait
D.lose their heart
49.The passage mainly talks about ________.
A.the children who suffer aphasia
B.aphasia
C.the effect of aphaisa
D.a “critical period” for language learning
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Directions:
In this section there are four passages with a total of four multiple choice questions. Skim or scan them as required and then mark your answer on your answer sheet.
1
First read the following question.
50. The passage is chiefly about _______.
A. the birthplace of Shakespeare
B. Mary’s childhood
C. England’s most famous playwright
D. Mary Arden’s house
Now read Passage 1 quickly and mark your answer on your ANSWER SHEET.
Shakespeare lovers keen to see the place where the Bard’s mother Mary Arden grew up have been visiting the wrong house since the 18th century. The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust said that new research had shown the Tudor farmhouse long known as “Mary Arden’s House” in fact belonged to a family friend. The mother of William Shakespeare, England’s most famous playwriter, actually lived in another property close by the Warwickshire village of Wilmcote, three miles north of Stratford-upon-Avon. The discovery was made by local historian Nat Alcock, who tr
aced medieval land deeds, including a rental agreement dating from 1587, showing that a building known as Glebe Farm was Mary’s childhood home. The house thought to have been her home was in fact owned by Adam Palmer, a family friend and neighbor. Glebe Farm will now be known as Mary Arden’s House and the building which previously bore that name will be called Palmer’s Farm.
2
First read the following question.
51. According to an EU poll published recently,_______of those polled believe foreign language skills are useful.
A. 71 percent
B. 72 percent
C. 69 percent
D. 70 percent
Now read Passage 2 quickly and mark your answer on your ANSWER SHEET.
The British are the European Union’s worst linguists while the citizens of Luxembourg are the best, according to an EU poll published recently. Almost two-thirds of Britons know no language apart from their mother tongue, the highest figure recorded in the 15 EU countries. That compares to just 2.2 percent in Luxembourg, 12.3 percent of Danes and an EU average of 47.3 percent of people who speak no other language but their own, the poll of 16,000 EU citizens said. But British travelers to Europe need not worry. English is the most common second language in the EU, spoken by 41 percent of the block’s citizens. In Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands, at least 78 percent of people speak English as a second language. Although 47 percent of EU citizens know only their mother tongue, there is wide agreement that speaking foreign language is good thing. 72 percent of those polled believe foreign language skills are useful, 71 percent said everyone should know one foreign language and 69 percent said everyone should speak English.
3
First read the following question.
52. ELTECS-Chi-L is sponsored by _______.
A. UK
B. USA
C. Belgium
D. Japan
Now read Passage 3 quickly and mark your answer on your ANSWER SHEET.
English teachers network ELTECS-Chi-L
What is ELTECS-Chi-L
English Language Teaching Contacts Scheme for China List (ELTECS-Chi-L) is a British Council China on-line discussion group for Chinese English language teaching (ELT) professionals with an interest in developing themselves and sharing views on ELT. Launched in Beijing by Helena Kennedy QC, Chair of the British Council, on 9th October 1998, the network now has around 450 subscribers among whom more than 40 are from the UK, Belgium, Japan and other countries.
ELTECS-Chi-L is a sister network to the ELTECS (English Language Teaching Contact Scheme) network which is mainly composed of ELT professionals in central and eastern Europe with over 1000 members.
How to subscribe to ELTECS-Chi-L
Any English teachers working in primary and middle schools or universities who have e-mail access are welcome to join the network at any time to share their ideas, expertise and experience with others.
To join ELTECS-Chi-L, send the following command as email to [email protected]
COUN.ORG,SUB ELTECS-Chi-L yourfirstname yourlastname. For example: SUB ELTECS-Chi-L Zhonghua Zhang.For more information please e-mail Ma Zhigang at [email protected], editor of ELTECS-Chi-L.
4
First read the following question.
53. Those lucky people in Washington won_______in 1989 Sweepstakes.
A. $233,080.00
B. $802,596.00
C. $51,600.00
D. $51,260.00
Now read Passage 4 quickly and mark your answer on your ANSWER SHEET.
OVER 55 MILLION DOLLARS AWARDED TO 1,703,289 WINNERS
States 1989 Sweepstakes Total Dollar Winnings
Dollars Amount: In Sweepstakes To Date:
California $233,080.00 $4,019,404.00
Florida $104,660.00 $6,664,267.00
Illinois $190,520.00 $2,283,577.00
Michigan $51,260.00 $1,747,890.00
New York $59,440.00 $2,367,146.00
Ohio $44,580.00 $1,786,956.00
Pennsylvania $5,146,260.00 $6,621,469.00
Texas $72,940.00 $2,465,074.00
Virginia $29,280.00 $862,057.00
Washington $51,600.00 $802,596.00
Wisconsin $46,940.00 $1,302,603.00
In addition 24,544 lucky people from 39 other states won another $611,540.00 in 1989 alone.
Total for all states $6,642,000.00 $56,945,244.00
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